“I’ve been hearing some of the policy drift over the last day or two,” he said last night on CNN. “I hope it happens and i hope it happens before we actually have the motion to proceed next Monday night … At the end of the day, bipartisan means something that both sides, large numbers, both sides of the aisle agree to, and right now I’m a little concerned about the policy drift that’s taken place.”

Dodd and Shelby, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Banking Committee, are working on a bipartisan agreement on financial regulatory reform legislation. The bill will officially be brought to the floor Monday night, if the Senate approves a cloture vote to begin debate.

Earlier this week, Corker predicted that not only would the two come to a deal, but that they would get 100 votes to begin debate.